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True. Then again, robots don't have Aura, or Semblances, and as per genre conventions they mainly employ the tactic of wave spamming the enemy with numbers, which leaves them a tad outclassed compared to the Beacon folks. The main reason they're used it probably because you can build them in large numbers, they never retreat, they don't feel fear, and they don't take as much logistics compared to a human army. But yeah, they're gonna get wrekt like all of Juniors mooks when the time comes.
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Penny is a robot with an aura and therefor, a semblance. :p

The robots entire purpose is just to get hacked by Cinder so they can fuck up Vale. Or maybe not.

Because all Cinder has done is chuckle sinisterly and deliver flat lines about how 'everything is going according to plan', so we don't have the slightest inclination of what her grand chess master schemes are. 

I hope Roman turns out to be the big bad in the end or doubles crosses her. He's so much better as a villain.